yearned

英 [jɜːnd]

美 [jɜːrnd]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 渴望;渴求;向往
  If someoneyearns forsomething that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
  1. He yearned for freedom...
     他渴望自由。
  2. I yearned to be a movie actor.
     我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。

双语例句

• Nevertheless, I yearned for a career that would also give me the chance to help the underprivileged.
  可是，我渴望着获得一份职业，使我有机会帮助社会底层的人民。
• How he yearned for her whenever they were separated.
  每当他们分离时，他是多么强烈地思念着她啊。
• Never stopped Diana from striving to show the world the love that she herself yearned for.
  从未终止她向世人散播爱心的努力，这份爱正是她所渴望获得的。
• All at once I pictured my own father, patiently enduring my nightly accordion practice sessions though he must have yearned for peace and quiet after his long days at the pizza factory.
  突然，我想起了我的父亲。虽然他在比萨厂呆了一整天后一定非常渴望清静，但还是耐心地忍受着我每天晚上练习手风琴的那段时间。
• We yearned for beauty, truth and meaning in our lives.
  我们渴望生活中有美、真理和意义。
• He, like others, yearned for the enjoyment of whatever he saw enjoyable.
  他象别人那样，渴望欣赏不论什么他看到的可以欣赏的东西。
• I yearned for the feeling of being a winner again.
  我渴望再次成为胜利者的感觉。
• He yearned to ask her to marry him.
  他强烈希望要她嫁给他。
• I yearned to be a movie actor.
  我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。
• He yearned for wearing a set of descent vesture in front of female schoolmates;
  他渴望穿一身体面的衣裳站在女同学的面前；